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• UCLA cancels classes after violence erupts on campus over the war in Gaza

  01-05-2024 19:11 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dueling groups of protesters clashed overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, shoving, kicking and beating each other with sticks after pro-Israel demonstrators tried to pull down barricades surrounding a pro-Palestinian encampment. Hours earlier, police burst into a building occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia University, breaking up a demonstration that had paralyzed the school.
  After a couple of hours of scuffles between demonstrators at UCLA, p
  
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• Emergency alert sirens to be tested weekly in Mora and San Miguel counties

  11-06-2024 01:16 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Emergency alert sirens will be tested weekly in Mora and San Miguel counties starting Wednesday, June 12. The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) said that they will conduct the tests at noon every Wednesday.Story continues below
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• City of Albuquerque restarting homeless day job program

  11-06-2024 01:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It's been almost a decade since Albuquerque got national acclaim for a program paying the homeless to work for the city. While that effort faded away, now the city is bringing it back hoping to help more people looking for work and a way off the streets. "There's always a continuum of need of support for those that are unhoused," said City of Albuquerque Health, Housing and Homelessness Director, Gilbert Ramirez.Story continues below
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• Survey: Red River businesses lost money during Memorial Day weekend events

  11-06-2024 01:14 via krqe.com
  
  RED RIVER, N.M. (KRQE) – A deadly biker gang shootout pushed Red River to replace its Memorial Day festivities this year. While some said it was a success, other businesses said the change has cost them a lot.Story continues below
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• Storms return Tuesday with warmer temperatures

  11-06-2024 00:57 via krqe.com
  
  Scattered storms return to parts of New Mexico Tuesday afternoon. A warming trend also begins Tuesday, with record heat possible on Thursday.
  The Albuquerque Metro and parts of New Mexico woke up to a nice, soaking rain Monday morning. That area of rain has been wrapping up through the day, with a few spotty rain showers in western, central and northern New Mexico this afternoon. High instability in eastern New Mexico has lead to more afternoon thunderstorms. Temperatures in parts of the state t
  
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• Sunland Park Fire finds another body in desert

  11-06-2024 00:56 via krqe.com
  
  EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Sunland Park Fire found another body in the desert on Monday, June 10, the department said.Sunland Park Fire assisted Dona Ana County Fire Rescue, Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office, and the Office of the Medical Investigator with a body recovery in the desert off the Pete Domenici Highway and New Mexico Highway 9. The call came in out at about 2:25 p.m.Sunland Park Fire recovers body in desert
  According to the U.S. Border Patrol, agents in the El Paso Sector, which includ
  
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• VIDEO: Woman caught breaking into abandoned Corrales home

  11-06-2024 00:05 via krqe.com
  
  CORRALES, N.M. (KRQE) – When police caught a woman taking items from an abandoned home in Corrales, she told them she was just doing work for her boss. This was news to her boss. She's now facing charges for home burglary.A neighbor at a home in Corrales called the police about a strange woman loading items into a white van. When Detective John Colvin arrived, he found Joleen Myers. She told the detective that nobody lived in the home and a co-worker ordered her to fix the fence and t
  
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• Tucumcari man sentenced to 10 years after attempting sexual conduct with fictitious children

  10-06-2024 23:59 via krqe.com
  
  TUCUMCARI, N.M. (KRQE) – Joseph Gadman, a 42-year-old from Tucumcari, received a 10-year prison sentence after getting caught by an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says Gadman contacted an undercover agent on social media in 2022. Then, over text, Gadman showed interest in sexual activity with young children, the DOJ says. But, he did not know that he was speaking to an undercover FBI agent about fictitious children. Nav
  
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• Judge denies Solomon Peña's motion to throw out some evidence

  10-06-2024 23:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The suspected mastermind behind the shootings at four elected official's homes has lost a bid to get some evidence thrown out. Solomon Peña, who lost a bid for the state House of Representatives in 2022, is accused of plotting the shootings of the homes of two Bernalillo County Commissioners and two state lawmakers.Albuquerque man pleads guilty to pointing rifle at carsPeña challenged evidence federal prosecutors want to bring against him at tr
  
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• FBI figures show drop in violent crime

  10-06-2024 23:02 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Violent crime dropped considerably in the first months of 2024 compared to the same time last year, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI.Crime reporting for the first quarter of the year showed a 15 percent drop in violent crime overall, including a 13 percent drop in aggravated assault.Serious violent crime like murder and rape both decreased by about 26 percent.The figures were a victory for the Biden administration, which sought to highlight the dip as the GOP focu
  
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• Dept. of Labor: Two Albuquerque seafood restaurants withheld employee tips, wages

  10-06-2024 22:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The U.S. Department of Labor recovered $253,000 from two Albuquerque seafood restaurants for illegally withholding part of workers' tips and wages.The department said the Crackin' Crab locations on Pan American Freeway NE and Louisiana Boulevard NE broke federal law when they kept parts of tips that should have gone to 19 employees. The franchise restaurant also violated the overtime provisions by paying time and one-half the regular rate of pay after 80 hou
  
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• State Supreme Court rules regulators can change rates proposed by rural co-ops

  10-06-2024 22:42 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled state regulators do have the power to set electric rates different from what a rural co-op proposes. The ruling centers on a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to reject a Socorro Electric Cooperative proposal for a $1.25 million rate increase and instead set a different rate structure. The co-op argued that the PRC can only approve or deny rate proposals but not decide the rate themselves. New Mexico Supreme Cou
  
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• Rio Rancho man accused of trying to kill his adult son

  10-06-2024 22:13 via krqe.com
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – A Rio Rancho man is facing an attempted murder charge after police say he tried to kill his adult son. Police say they received reports of a man, later identified as Vincent Buscema, yelling and shooting a gun into a home in an area west of the Rio Rancho Event Center. Albuquerque man pleads guilty to pointing rifle at carsThe homeowners were injured from the shooting while two kids inside the home were not harmed. According to police, one of the homeown
  
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers hangout with Bernalillo County Animal Care Service staff and dogs

  10-06-2024 22:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Dogs and staff from the Bernalillo County Animal Care Service had a special visit with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Isleta Amphitheater.The iconic rock group invited five dogs that are up for adoption, two staff members, and a few volunteers from the shelter backstage before their concert on Friday night. The county said the band, known for their animal advocacy, wanted to use their fame to raise awareness of homeless animals in the community.Tik To
  
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• College students from around the world to compete in Spaceport America Cup

  10-06-2024 21:59 via krqe.com
  
  TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (KRQE) – More than 6,000 college students from around the world will soon be putting their rockets to the test here in New Mexico for the 2024 Spaceport America Cup. Federal agencies facing lawsuit for illegal cattle grazing in New Mexico preserveAccording to the cup's website, more than 150 teams from six continents will be participating this year. The competition is scheduled to start June 17 at the Las Cruces Convention Center and will move to Spaceport Ameri
  
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• Scattered showers and storms continue through Monday night

  10-06-2024 21:35 via krqe.com
  
  NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Light to heavy, widespread rain showers are spinning around a low pressure system in New Mexico. We will see scattered rain showers in central, northern, east-central and west-central New Mexico. Skies will dry out a bit after noon, but isolated storms will develop and spin around the state, bringing more storm chances to central, northern and eastern New Mexico.Forecast Continues Below
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• Apple to launch new AI features, partner with ChatGPT

  10-06-2024 21:15 via krqe.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Apple will offer new artificial intelligence (AI) features for users across products in its upcoming software updates, both through its own new native "Apple Intelligence" and a partnership that will incorporate ChatGPT into devices.Apple Intelligence aims to give users an AI system that is personalized to their needs, the company announced Monday at its developer's conference.
  Apple’s announcement of Apple Intelligence, combined with updates coming to its AI voice assistant
  
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• 'Serious violation of human rights': Pizza chain owner in Massachusetts convicted of forced labor

  10-06-2024 21:00 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (NEXSTAR/WWLP) – The owner of a Boston-area pizzeria chain was convicted on charges of forced labor after authorities said he threatened his workers with physical harm and deportation in order to keep some of them working 14-plus hours per day for as many as seven days per week.Stavros Papantoniadis, the owner of Stash's Pizza, was convicted Friday, June 7, 2024, of forced labor charges following a nine-day jury trial. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, File)
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• 'Immersive' phone calls are the future of communication, Nokia says. But what are they?

  10-06-2024 20:59 via krqe.com
  
  (NEXSTAR) – The CEO of Nokia, the Finland-based telecommunications giant, claims to have just participated in the world’s first “immersive” voice and audio call — a milestone the company is calling “the biggest leap forward in the live voice calling experience since the introduction of monophonic telephony.”The call — made between Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark and Stefan Lindström, Finland’s Ambassador for Digitalization and New Technologies
  
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• Albuquerque man pleads guilty to pointing rifle at cars

  10-06-2024 20:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –A man who was accused of pointing a rifle at cars as they passed a busy intersection in 2021 has plead guilty. Ashton Butler pled guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
  In June of 2021, Butler pointed a rifle at drivers on the corner of Louisiana and San Antonio.
  As part of the agreement, Butler is entering the Veterans Treatment Court Program. He will be sentenced once he completes the program.
  
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• Man pleads guilty in 2023 Albuquerque fatal shooting case

  10-06-2024 20:51 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man has admitted to shooting and killing someone at a Motel 6 on Coors and Iliff in 2023. Jose Fitzpatrick shot Damon Howardat the motel.
  Howard's body was found on the second floor. Fitzpatrick was arrested a few days later after a six-hour standoff in southwest Albuquerque.
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• St. John's College offering free summer lecture series in Santa Fe

  10-06-2024 20:21 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The St. John’s College Graduate Institute is inviting the public to attend a free summer lecture series. Five lectures will be offered through July. Is New Mexico on track to meet its environmental goals?The lectures, as described by St. John's College are:
  July 1: (4:15 p.m.),Dr. Daniel Breyer, Professor of Philosophy, Illinois State University, “Cross-Cultural Philosophy as a Great Conversation”“In this talk, I’ll explore th
  
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• New Mexico Supreme Court confirms murder conviction despite defendant's concerns on judge's actions

  10-06-2024 19:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Supreme Court upheld the first-degree murder conviction of an Alamogordo man who killed another man who he found with his "on-again, off-again girlfriend." Christopher Huble appealed his conviction, claiming that the trial judge wrongly denied a requested jury instruction on what is necessary under the law for a justifiable killing in self-defense, according to a news release from the court.State Supreme Court Chief Justice David K. Thomson wro
  
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• PHOTOS: Five-bedroom cabin in Angel Fire listed for $9 million

  10-06-2024 19:28 via krqe.com
  
  *Editor’s note: This article reflects the state of the listing at the publish date; the following property may have sold or changed in value since then.ANGEL FIRE, N.M. (KRQE) – An approximately 10,000-square-foot home in Angel Fire has been listed for $9 million. The property includes a 1,200-square-foot guest house, a spring-fed pond, access to fishing in the nearby Hidden Lake, elk permits, and more. PHOTOS: 1930s Catholic school for sale in Ranchos de TaosCourtesy of Lisa Su
  
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• Albuquerque man sentenced for stealing 2 firearms during robbery

  10-06-2024 19:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque man has been sentenced for an armed robbery crime. Court documents said the incident took place in April 2022.Dawayne Yates, 53, came into a Big 5 Sporting Goods store on San Mateo and asked to see a rifle. His identity was confirmed, and a Ruger Mini-14 rifle was handed to him. Yates reportedly pulled out a handgun and requested another rifle. The employee, out of fear, gave Yates a 12-gauge shotgun.Documents claimed Yates took both firearms
  
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• New light-based art installations coming to downtown Albuquerque

  10-06-2024 19:08 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A project that aims to bring light-based artwork to areas in and around downtown Albuquerque is returning this year. "City Brights II" will showcase light-based art at 10 sites in the downtown area, including around Lomas Boulevard, Broadway Boulevard, 12th Street, and Coal Avenue.The city is currently looking for artists to participate in the project and will provide them funding in the amounts of up to $2,500, $5,000, and $10,000. "We decided to do a
  
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• New art-based light installations coming to downtown Albuquerque

  10-06-2024 19:08 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A project that aims to bring light-based artwork to areas in and around downtown Albuquerque is returning this year. "City Brights II" will showcase light-based art at 10 sites in the downtown area, including around Lomas Boulevard, Broadway Boulevard, 12th Street, and Coal Avenue.The city is currently looking for artists to participate in the project and will provide them funding in the amounts of up to $2,500, $5,000, and $10,000. "We decided to do a
  
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• Albuquerque Garden Center holds flower show

  10-06-2024 18:42 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Council of Albuquerque Garden Clubs is holding a Flower Show and Tea. This year's theme is the "Golden Age of Jazz" and there will be four different divisions for participants to take part in -- horticulture, design, youth and education.
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• Albuquerque Coin Club: The history behind antique car coins

  10-06-2024 16:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In the late 1960s oil companies competed for customers more actively than they have in recent years. Several station chains offered collectable items and prizes for customers when they filled up such as antique car coins.
  Phil Vitale and Terry Mulcahy from the Albuquerque Coin Club talked more about antique car coins.
  According to Vitale and Mulcahy, the aluminum coins were given to customers when they filled their tanks. There were two series of 25 coi
  
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• Video: E-bike riders torment crowd with fireworks in Southern California

  10-06-2024 14:57 via krqe.com
  
  (KTLA) - A group of E-bike riders near California's Hermosa Beach Pier had nighttime revelers scrambling after launching illegal fireworks in the crowded entertainment district over the weekend.According to authorities at the Hermosa Beach Police Department, the incident happened around 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
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